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Alice Walker Quote

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”

— Alice Walker

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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

— Alice Walker

Hope

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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

— Alice Walker

Wisdom

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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

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Wisdom

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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

— Alice Walker

Love

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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Wisdom

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

— Alice Walker

Happiness

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